If you'd like a good lesson in how capitalism works, Elon promised a mars colony by 2025 and in 2026 he is just crashing rockets into the moon.
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#MedicareForAll. Anti-apartheid. Fracking sucks. Opinions mine. No DMs🇺🇸 Profile pic: smiling dark haired white lady
At the risk of ruining my mentions, I want to remind my centrist friends that “vote blue no matter who” also applies when Dems nominate a leftist. We need to be single focused on winning back the Senate. We cannot do that without Michigan.
If Palestinians had targeted and blown up a synagogue in Israel it would be one of the lead stories on every UK news channel. But Israel targeting & blowing up a mosque in Gaza? It doesn't get a mention.
The Map They Don’t Teach: A Few of The Massacres Behind the Wealth Gap. #ReparationsNow #BlackAugust #Massacre
An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. (Published May)
This Sheriff’s Office Says Racial Profiling Reforms Are Too Costly. Auditors Found It Misused $163 Million.
Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was...
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The Great Climate Insurance Collapse is beginning before our eyes. How does it happen? Gradually, and then all at once. Buckle up. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
E&E News: Climate change is turning parts of Europe into an insurance nightmare
The European Central Bank and EU insurance regulators have called on Brussels to set up an EU-level reinsurance scheme and a public natural disaster fund.
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It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico #Hegseth #USMilitary futurism.com/science-ener...
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.
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I feel like the goal of the administration & tech is to replace every university with an app called, like, Skolr.
The Cockroach Janata Party, founded by young Indians frustrated with a weak labor market, successfully forced the resignation of a top government official—a shocking concession from an increasingly authoritarian government. What does the movement mean for Modi? www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
What Do India’s Gen Z Protests Mean for Modi?
The Cockroach Janata Party, founded by young Indians frustrated with a weak labor market, successfully forced the resignation of a top government official—a shocking concession from an increasingly authoritarian government. What does the movement mean for Modi?
newyorker.com
Who is going to find time in their week this week to donate blood? The American Red Cross declared only its second ever national blood crisis in 145 years. There’s only a day’s worth of O+!
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Jon Husted brought 226 energy sucking data centers to Ohio and now you're paying more than ever for your utility bills. signalohio.org/electric-bil...
Electric bills hit new highs across Ohio, state data shows - Signal Ohio
Electric bills will likely hit record highs for millions of Ohioans when July bills go out this month. In Columbus, average bills near $200.
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Larry Tenney@larrytenney.bsky.social · 7d agoJon Husted is the face of Data Centers in Ohio Husted spent years aggressively recruiting Data Centers to OH cutting sweetheart deals and fast-tracking approvals while ordinary residents watched their electricity bills explode Husted is working for billionaires & Data Centers not everyday Ohioans
This is Loki, our Maine Coon and the cat of our hearts, and he went missing today. We have no idea how he got out, but he’s an elder, indoor cat, the whole region’s in an intense heat wave, and we’re really scared. I doubt I have any followers here in Martinez, CA, but if so, help? It’s SO hot
If they ever do an autopsy report on the DNC,they won’t like what they find The curtain has been pulled back.Dems & Reps take large amounts of $ from the same donors.It has been a 1 party system for decades.They are paid to spin their wheels & just look busy.That’s why they never get anything done.
I'm not going to be relitigating COVID lockdowns or mask mandates. Both were necessary measures that saved lives. If you cannot accept the curtailing of even the minor of freedoms in the name of public safety, you have demonstrated that you do not give a solitary fuck about the rest of us.
RFK Jr and wife had a soiree at their Hollywood mansion during COVID and required proof of COVID vaccination with RSVP. Watch what they do, not what they say. –Rachel Maddow
@wosupublicmedia.bsky.social I loved learning about S. Hamlin Guss just now. Thanks!